I Agree with XenoPhage. Your network is very similar to mine and that is almost exactly the same way I have mine deployed.
In my environment I am running al the network services (DNS, DHCP, etc.) on my production Win2k8 servers, with the exception of the DNS for the registration vlan since Microsoft has decided not to support wildcard DNS entries (you CAN do it but it requires a registry hack). Also, the admin guide can be a bit confusing when it talks about vlan enforcement. You do not need to trunk all your vlans to the PF server so long as you configure your switches and vlans properly. In Cisco speak this means adding the PF server as a DHCP helper to all the vlans you want PF to be on and make sure that the subnet your server is on can send RADIUS/SNMP to the management IP of your switches. Do that and you are good to go! Good luck. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________________ From: Jason Frisvold [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 8:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Place PacketFence system Minh Trung wrote: > Hello experts, > > I am newbie in Packetfence. > My infrastructure including Microsoft OS and some Linux platform. > I already have DNS, DHCP, it's based on Microsoft 2k8 platform. > Now, may i using Packetfence on my network? > My currently network: > > Intetrnet --+> Firewalls --+> Core switches --+> Switches(Cisco 2960) > --+> LAN > | > |--+> Servers farm. > > Where i can place Packetfence?? > Can i using Packetfence on VMware machine or not? > Any help would be appreciated, It depends on what your standards are. I would probably put the packetfence server where your server farm is, but you'll need to trunk in a vlan on the switches for authentication. Using your existing DNS and DHCP is fine for everything except the authentication VLAN. For that you'll want to use the packetfence server. Yes, you can run this on VMWare. We run it on RHEV and it works fine. > Best regards, -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold [email protected] --------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.\" - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
